Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at i [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’
2 She exploded at me in the hospital .
3 I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’
4 She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’
5 My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle .
6 She looked at me in the candle-light .
7 She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed .
8 He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
9 It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled .
10 As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth .
11 I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep
12 He looked at me across the room .
13 He looked at me for the first time when I said this .
14 He nodded and he looked at me for the first time .
15 ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box .
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